Product Description: If you've ever wanted to wear a crown, invade a neighbor, or marry for land and money, read this entertaining book. Find out how the brainy and brawny royals in history, who inherited power or seized it by force, measure up against each other...read more

Product Description: "For those who like good writing about natural history, for any Northwesterner, and for anyone who has ever yearned to live on a small island, this book will be a joy". -- Publishers Weekly

Product Description: Long ago, kings and queens ruled many lands. Peek inside to learn what kings and queens do today.

Product Description: BEHIND THE SCENES IN A MEDIEVAL CASTLE History comes alive in poetry and pictures. Welcome to the 13th-century banquet at the castle of the Earl of Daftwood! Here young readers will meet all of the lords and ladies, the servants and the squires...read more

Notes prominent contemporary as well as past members of royalty.

Introduces some of the leading monarchs of history, from the pharoahs to Queen Victoria, through their sanitary practices and characteristic odors

Product Description: Anderson Island in Puget Sound exists as a kind of tiny, autonomous world. Sharply defined by bitterly cold water, deep enough to float a destroyer; by dense fog; and by dangerous tide rips caused by the narrow channels, it is a community without an officer of the law, a minister of the gospel, or a doctor of medicine...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book explores the coronations, funerals , palaces & pastimes of the world''s most famous monarchs. Ri ch artwork reflects the wealth & luxury enjoyed by history''s rulers, while story sequences bring their actions & adventu res to life. '

Traces the history of leaders from their origins in prehistoric times to the present, examines the roles of rulers in different societies, and profiles noteworthy monarchs and statesmen